How much does o3 Mini High cost?

Billing is usage-based: $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use, and current rates are shown in the Hormouz dashboard.

How do I access o3 Mini High from inside Iran?

Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to o3 Mini High from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

Is o3 Mini High compatible with OpenAI code?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and chat-completions code run without a rewrite.

What context window and capabilities does o3 Mini High have?

o3 Mini High supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. It also supports tool calling and step-by-step reasoning. That makes it a good fit for the hardest STEM, math and coding problems where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.

What is o3 Mini High good for?

o3 Mini High works well for the hardest STEM, math and coding problems where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.

What is o3 Mini High's knowledge cutoff?

o3 Mini High's training data runs through Oct 2023. For information newer than that, provide the relevant context in your prompt or connect a tool that fetches live data.

OpenAI: o3 Mini High: AI model

o3 Mini High is an OpenAI model. O3 Mini with reasoning effort set to high for harder problems, with up to 200K-token context. Reachable from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 200,000 tokens
Input:: $1.1/1M tokens
Output:: $4.4/1M tokens
Type:: text

Tools
Streaming
Long context

Thinking levels: Always thinks · high

o3 Mini High is o3 Mini with reasoning effort set to high for harder problems. o3 Mini High is the same model as o3 Mini with reasoning_effort defaulted to high. That trades some latency for deeper thinking, making it a stronger fit for the hardest STEM, math and coding problems while keeping the cost-efficient o3-mini pricing. It supports a context window of up to 200K tokens, with training data through Oct 2023.

o3 Mini High is served through Hormouz behind an OpenAI-compatible API. It supports tool calling and step-by-step reasoning. Point your base URL at Hormouz and drop in a Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

Pricing is usage-based: $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens. Hormouz provides stable access to the model from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.

OpenAI o3-mini-high is the same model as o3-mini with reasoning_effort set to high. o3-mini is a cost-efficient language model optimized for STEM reasoning tasks, particularly excelling in science, mathematics, and...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/o3-mini-high",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	OpenAI
Type	Text
Context window	200,000 tokens
Pricing	$1.10/M in · $4.40/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Tools

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index

Better than 14% of models we compared

16.3

Coding Index

Better than 15% of models we compared

0.9

Agentic Index

Better than 8% of models we compared

Reasoning

GPQA Diamond

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

77.3%

HLE

Humanity's Last Exam

12%

IFBench

Instruction-following

67.1%

AA-LCR

Long-context reasoning

43%

CritPt

Research-level physics reasoning

0.3%

AA Omniscience

Broad factual knowledge accuracy

21.3%

Non-Hallucination

Rate of avoiding fabricated answers

18.9%

Coding

SciCode

Python for scientific computing

42.8%

Terminal-Bench Hard

Agentic coding & terminal use

6.1%

Agentic

τ²-Bench

Tool-use agents in dual-control scenarios

31.3%

GDPval

Economically valuable tasks

Source: Artificial Analysis

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/o3-mini-high",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/o3-mini-high",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "openai/o3-mini-high",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does o3 Mini High cost?: Billing is usage-based: $1.1 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens. There is no fixed monthly fee. You pay only for what you use, and current rates are shown in the Hormouz dashboard.
How do I access o3 Mini High from inside Iran?: Create an account on Hormouz and generate an API key. Hormouz provides a stable path to o3 Mini High from inside Iran, with no foreign credit card or circumvention tooling required.
Is o3 Mini High compatible with OpenAI code?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible API. Just change the base URL to Hormouz and swap in your Hormouz key. Your existing SDKs and chat-completions code run without a rewrite.
What context window and capabilities does o3 Mini High have?: o3 Mini High supports a context window of up to 200K tokens. It also supports tool calling and step-by-step reasoning. That makes it a good fit for the hardest STEM, math and coding problems where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.
What is o3 Mini High good for?: o3 Mini High works well for the hardest STEM, math and coding problems where deeper thinking is worth extra latency.
What is o3 Mini High's knowledge cutoff?: o3 Mini High's training data runs through Oct 2023. For information newer than that, provide the relevant context in your prompt or connect a tool that fetches live data.

Updated 2026-10-13